17 Kids and Counting - Page 7

ILG · #61 12-11-2008, 10:53 AM

I am always amazed at how mad people get if they say they want a lot of kids. Makes no sense to me. It's not personal. LOL!

I think Sept may change his tune after a few and think spacing may be desirable. I think the birth control is a sin people are taking it too far. But, if folks want to have a lot of children and they are responsible about it, to everyone else, it's just nunya!

jtork · #62 12-11-2008, 11:03 AM

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I am always amazed at how mad people get if they say they want a lot of kids. Makes no sense to me. It's not personal. LOL!

I think Sept may change his tune after a few and think spacing may be desirable. I think the birth control is a sin people are taking it too far. But, if folks want to have a lot of children and they are responsible about it, to everyone else, it's just nunya!

I agree with you 100% and especially about the part where Sept will change his mind! I would love to have about 5 kids, but I am smart enough to know it is not financially possible or mentally possible - learned that after havinig just one! LOL. It really isn't anyone's business how many kids someone has but it does kind of get under my skin when they have kid after kid after kid without the means to support them.

ILG · #63 12-11-2008, 11:05 AM

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I agree with you 100% and especially about the part where Sept will change his mind! I would love to have about 5 kids, but I am smart enough to know it is not financially possible or mentally possible - learned that after havinig just one! LOL. It really isn't anyone's business how many kids someone has but it does kind of get under my skin when they have kid after kid after kid without the means to support them.

Yes, if they aren't taking care of them, that is another story, even if they have just one!

RandyWayne · #64 12-11-2008, 11:09 AM

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Also, talking about vasectomies is GROSS, and getting one has GOT TO BE WRONG! I know it's not in the Book per say, but if they wrote about such a thing, the people of that day probably wouldn't have believed it (same as if they wrote something like, "Don't go to movie theaters" or something like that). Actually the Law is fairly clear in not messing with our reproductive systems that GOD gave us. Along with being fruitful, there are commands AGAINST allowing certain kinds of men to hold priesthood if they had gotten injured in some way.

Getting root canals is gross too, but sometimes they need to be done.

And what is all this talk of "the law"? Tell me how many ox, goats, sheep, and doves you killed the past month? After all, if you follow any part of the law it is beholden on you to follow ALL of it......

Coffee99 · #65 12-11-2008, 11:19 AM

Ah, to have the energy that I had at 19! I miss that - and the feeling that I had it all figured out when I was 19. Life experience brings about changes. I wonder if Sept Teen will still be this certain when he is 50?

RandyWayne · #66 12-11-2008, 11:20 AM

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Ah, to have the energy that I had at 19! I miss that - and the feeling that I had it all figured out when I was 19. Life experience brings about changes. I wonder if Sept Teen will still be this certain when he is 50?

Or 25.

dizzyde · #67 12-11-2008, 11:20 AM

My biggest and really only problem with this situation, and with any situation where people have a lot of children (providing of course that they have the finances to support them all the way through their childhoods, and hopefully educations) is this, at a certain point the older siblings have to start giving up their childhoods in order for the house to run. The older brothers and sisters have to become surrogate parents, because there is no way that mom and dad have the time or the energy to take care of them all. You see this in this Duggar house, they call them "buddies" I think, which is just a euphemism for "I have to take care of this child".

I have a real problem with that. I think some of these girls are going to be so tired of taking care of children by the time they are adults, that they are not going to want to have their own children for a long time, if ever. Just my two cents...

Coffee99 · #68 12-11-2008, 11:21 AM

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Or 25.

Yep - 25 is a real eye opener as well!

Traci · #69 12-11-2008, 11:27 AM

IMO, in our sociey we have been conditioned to have a distain for people who have more than the "norm"--the 2 child family--and that is not supported in the Bible. Children are a blessing whether you have 1 or 17. I have three.

Sept5SavedTeen · #70 12-11-2008, 11:28 AM

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And what is all this talk of "the law"? Tell me how many ox, goats, sheep, and doves you killed the past month? After all, if you follow any part of the law it is beholden on you to follow ALL of it......

Uhhh... four of each, like any good apostolic!!!

, jk

Interesting discussion... I don't have much more to contribute, since I don't have kids, a wife or a girl I'm courting, so LORD knows I am a long way off, but when you see a bunch of short apostolics with glasses walking around 20 years from now, just know that I've made my mark

-Bro. Alex